Hi, I need advise on which network mode I should pick for the VM. The requirement are:
1) I need to put the VM on a separate network (shown with a hypothetical IP below).
2) The VM can connect to the Internet (the host is already able to do this).
3) The VM can see the Host and vice versa.
| VM (Guest) | Host | |
|---|---|---|
| IP | 123.55.70.213 | 192.168.60.3 |
Can someone advise which of the following network mode I should pick for the VM?
- NAT
- Host-only
- Bridged
- LAN segment
I initially picked "LAN segment", though the issue is I believe this would prevent the VM from connecting to either the host or the Internet.
NAT appears to be the solution from the Help section with the following description.
Once I powered up my Linux VM, I then went to System -> Preferences -> Network Connections in order to assign the IP address I want for the VM. However, I'm not quite certain what I should put for the Netmask and Gateway in order to make this to work. Can someone provide some guidance please?
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Not sure why but I'm unable to connect to the Internet from my VM guest through the PC host. When I checked on Windows, it appears the VMnet8 network has no Internet access. I am able to Putty into the CentOS running on the guest VM from my Windows 7 host, however. Any idea how I can enable this?
Note the VMware Bridge Protocol has not been selected. This is correct, right?
This is the TCP/IPv4 Properties for VMnet8. Noted that Default gateway is correct to have nothing set.
Can I however ask how would the Windows 7 host knows any Internet bound packets from the VM guest would need to be routed to my gateway at 192.168.10.1?
Hi shootist
> Why is it everyone on these type forums, especially the so call experts, are slightly condescending when pointing out some else mistake.
Please forgive us - usually we all are quite easy going guys.
Its just that in the last few months we have a very large number of posts by a small number of new users that post random links to as many posts as they can.
So we are a little bit on edge at the moment.
Please forgive us
André Pett wrote:
Can you please provide the current IP configuration of the guest (IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS server). The VM's gateway - in case of NAT - has to be 123.55.70.2.
André
Here's what set in System -> Preferences -> Network Connections -> Wired tab -> eth0
When I tried "ping www.yahoo.com" it's unable to find the site, whether or not I have set 123.55.70.2 as the DNS server on this screen below.
I even tried editing /etc/resolv.conf manually and running "service network restart" and doing the ping test again but still have no luck.
If I do "dig www.yahoo.com" it just stucks there until I press Control-C. If I tried "dig @123.55.70.2 www.yahoo.com" it works fine however. Any ideas?
Hi, okay I found the solution. So here are the steps:
1) Setup the VM to have an IP of 123.55.70.23
2) Setup the VM to use the GW at 123.55.70.2 with the following command.
route add default gw 123.55.70.2 eth0
3) Add DNS servers.
a) Edit the DNS client configuration file.
view /etc/resolv.conf
b) Add the following entries. These IPs are visible from the PC host via a connection to the Internet (circled in blue below).
nameserver 192.168.10.1 (same entry applied for the VMnet8 network adapter on the PC host as shown below but can be different)
nameserver 64.59.144.91 (same entry applied for the VMnet8 network adapter on the PC host as shown below but can be different)
4) Bounce the network service.
service network restart
Network on PC host
Setting for VMnet8
Note no Default Gateway is required to be setup here.
